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Jan H. Behrmann is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research activity spans multiple fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Ocean Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Among recent publications, noteworthy papers include:

  • The Slab Puzzle of the Alpine-Mediterranean Region: Insights From a New, High-Resolution, Shear Wave Velocity Model of the Upper Mantle (2020), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Lithospheric structure of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: Inferences from surface wave tomography and stochastic inversions constrained by wide-angle refraction measurements (2021), Tectonophysics
  • Deformation, CPO, and Elastic Anisotropy in Low-Grade Metamorphic Serpentinites, Atlantis Massif Oceanic Core Complex (2021), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Data related to 'Deformation, CPO and Elastic Anisotropy in Low-grade Metamorphic Serpentinites, Atlantis Massif Oceanic Core Complex' (2021), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IODP Expedition 314, Hole C0003A - Well Logging Data (2020), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent collaborators in their research include J. Casey Moore, Toshiya Kanamatsu, Michael B. Underwood, Gaku Kimura, and Dale S. Sawyer.

Publication venues where Jan H. Behrmann has contributed frequently are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Tectonophysics
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Kinematics of the Alpine arc and the motion history of Adria

    J. P. Platt;J. H. Behrmann;P. C. Cunningham;J. F. Dewey

  • Structures and fabrics in a crustal-scale shear zone, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain

    J.P. Platt;J.H. Behrmann

  • A new perspective on paleopiezometry: Dynamically recrystallized grain size distributions indicate mechanism changes

    Michael Stipp;Jan Tullis;Martin Scherwath;Jan Hinrich Behrmann

  • Tectonics and hydrogeology of the northern Barbados Ridge: Results from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 110

    J. Casey Moore;Alain Mascle;Elliott Taylor;Patrick Andreieff

  • Deformation mechanisms in a high-temperature quartz-feldspar mylonite: evidence for superplastic flow in the lower continental crust

    J.H. Behrmann;D. Mainprice

  • Stress state in the largest displacement area of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

    Weiren Lin;Weiren Lin;Weiren Lin;Marianne Conin;Marianne Conin;J. Casey Moore;Frederick M. Chester

  • The thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone

    Christie D. Rowe;J. Casey Moore;Francesca Remitti

  • Sense of nappe emplacement from quartz c-axis fabrics; an example from the Betic Cordilleras (Spain)

    J.H. Behrmann;J.P. Platt

  • TOPO-EUROPE: the geoscience of coupled deep earth-surface processes

    S. A. P. L. Cloetingh;P. A. Ziegler;P. J. A. Bogaard;P. A. M. Andriessen

  • Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico

    P. B. Flemings;H. Long;B. Dugan;J. Germaine

  • Crustal scale extension in a convergent orogen: The Sterzing-Steinach mylonite zone in the eastern Alps

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  • Conditions for hydrofracture and the fluid permeability of accretionary wedges

    Jan H. Behrmann

  • Crystal plasticity and superplasticity in quartzite. A natural example

    Jan H. Behrmann

  • Extrusion dynamics of mud volcanoes on the Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex

    Achim Kopf;Jan H. Behrmann

  • Geochemical constraints on the sources of Southern Chile Trench sediments and their recycling in arc magmas of the Southern Andes

    Rolf Kilian;Jan H. Behrmann

  • Millennium-scale volcanic impact on a superhumid and pristine ecosystem

    Rolf Kilian;Harald Biester;Jan Behrmann;Oscar Baeza

  • Palaeoecological constraints on late Glacial and Holocene ice retreat in the Southern Andes (53°S)

    Rolf Kilian;Christoph Schneider;Johannes Koch;Martinus Fesq-Martin

  • South Atlantic opening: A plume-induced breakup?

    T. Fromm;Lars Planert;Wilfried Jokat;Trond Ryberg

  • Penninic windows at the eastern end of the Alps and their relation to the intra-Carpathian basins

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Jan H. Behrmann;Alfred Pahr

  • NanTroSEIZE Stage 1 Expeditions: Introduction and Synthesis of Key Results

    Harold Tobin;Masataka Kinoshita;Juichiro Ashi;Siegfried Lallement

  • Back-scattered electron imagery of the tectonic fabrics of some fine-grained sediments: Implications for fabric nomenclature and deformation processes

    Susan M. Agar;David J. Prior;Jan H. Behrmann

  • The Slab Puzzle of the Alpine-Mediterranean Region: Insights From a New, High-Resolution, Shear Wave Velocity Model of the Upper Mantle

    Amr El‐Sharkawy;Thomas Meier;Sergei Lebedev;Jan H. Behrmann

  • Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, 141 Scientific Results

    S.D. Lewis;J.H. Behrmann;R.J. Musgrave;S.C. Cande

Frequent Co-Authors

Cédric M. John
Cédric M. John Imperial College London
Peter B. Flemings
Peter B. Flemings The University of Texas at Austin
Wilfried Jokat
Wilfried Jokat University of Bremen
Trond Ryberg
Trond Ryberg University of Potsdam
Dirk Klaeschen
Dirk Klaeschen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Jörg Bialas
Jörg Bialas GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Sergei Lebedev
Sergei Lebedev Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Colin W. Devey
Colin W. Devey GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Sebastian Krastel
Sebastian Krastel Kiel University
Achim J Kopf
Achim J Kopf University of Bremen

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